Imagine How Confused Everyone Would Be If We Just Started Using A.u.c. (ab Urbe Condita)

Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

IM SORRY. I'M SO SORRY. They really chose to draw THIS? I CAN'T😭😭😭😭

Lemon and Parsley   -   Cressida Campbell  , 1988.

Australian , b . 1960 -  

Colour woodblock print,   41 x 29 cm .

MARINETTE YOU MENACE. OH GOD.

THIS IS ACTUALLY KILLING ME. THIS SHOW CANT BE SERIOUS, HOW IS THIS REAL.

the thing about teaching middle school in the current day and age is that it makes you say the most absurd things in order to engage with students on their level. like yeah sure caesar was a real rizzler. now can we lock in and finish these last few sentences before class is over. one of my colleagues has stuffed animals that the kids can keep on their desk but they have to ask in french if they can have the animal and the other day i heard a student asking if he could have the among us plush named sussy rouge

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology" at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe…

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

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Here’s a collection of people falling.

Shadow Theater - Inari Krohn , 1989.

Finnish, b. 1945 -

Etching , 55 x 48 cm. Ed. 21/30 .